Economy
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Basra Oil Workers Strike Could Resume Sunday | Kathlyn Stone
Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2006 – Oil pipeline workers in Basra, Iraq, will resume their strike as early as Sunday if authorities do not meet the remaining demands of workers, the ...
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Controlling the Masses: From Religion to Bernaise | Tom Rushing
Tom Rushing -- Information Clearing House Aug. 30, 2006 -- The most powerful political/economic force on the planet is and always will be “We the people.” In this article, I will make an attempt at ...
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The Five Morons Revisited | Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts -- Information Clearing House When the neocons launched the Bush administration’s invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and announced plans for invading Syria and Iran, I labeled ...
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110-Building Site in N.Y. Is Put Up for Sale | Charles V. Bagli & Janny Scott
CHARLES V. BAGLI and JANNY SCOTT -- New York Times Aug. 20, 2006 -- Metropolitan Life is putting Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village -- a stretch of 110 apartment buildings along the East River ...
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These Horrific Things Apparently Mean Nothing To Anyone | Mogambo Guru
Richard Daughty, the angriest guy in economics -- World News Trust Things just do not make sense to me anymore, and it is that bewildering confusion and "fear of the unknown" that brings out the ...
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Treasury Official Henry Due 20 Percent Of Gleacher Fund Profits | Robert Schmidt
Robert Schmidt -- Bloomberg Aug. 24, 2006 -- The U.S. Treasury official leading a government inquiry into the hedge-fund industry is owed up to $2.5 million in payments keyed in part to hedge-fund ...
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Bush White House To Be Subpoenaed By Wiretap Lawyers | Raw Story
Aug 29, 2006 (Raw Story) -- Two attorneys representing claimants in a lawsuit over wiretapping by the National Security Agency will subpoena the White House today. Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer, who ...
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International Labor Leaders Predict More Iraq Labor Strikes | Kathlyn Stone
Kathlyn Stone -- World News Trust Aug. 28, 2006 -- A 48-hour strike led by oil and gas workers in Basra, Iraq, last week signals a growing impatience with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, said a ...
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Halliburton Provided Iran With Key Nuclear Reactor Components, Sources Say | Jason Leopold
Jason Leopold -- World News Trust Aug. 6, 2005 Scandal-plagued Halliburton -- the oil services company once headed by Vice President Cheney -- sold an Iranian oil development company key components ...
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